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Download or read book Taste of Malta written by Claudia Cardana and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a cookbook, Taste of Malta also includes a brief history of Malta and Maltese cooking, an appendix with basic recipes for various dough's, sauces and stocks, along with an extensive section of resources, to ensure that everything you need to prepare an authentic Maltese meal is right at your fingertips. This collection features Maltese favourites like timpana (macaroni baked with tomatoes and ground meat enclosed in pastry), ross fil-forn (rice baked in meat sauce), and aljotta (fish soup with potatoes and garlic).
Book Synopsis The languages of Malta by : Albert Gatt
Download or read book The languages of Malta written by Albert Gatt and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to present a snapshot of the state of the art of research on the languages of the Maltese islands, which include spoken Maltese, Maltese English and Maltese Sign Language. Malta is a tiny, but densely populated country, with over 422,000 inhabitants spread over only 316 square kilometers. It is a bilingual country, with Maltese and English enjoying the status of official languages. Maltese is a descendant of Arabic, but due to the history of the island, it has borrowed extensively from Sicilian, Italian and English. Furthermore, local dialects still coexist alongside the official standard language. The status of English as a second language dates back to British colonial rule, and just as in other former British colonies, a characteristic Maltese variety of English has developed. To these languages must be added Maltese Sign Language, which is the language of the Maltese Deaf community. This was recently recognised as Malta’s third official language by an act of Parliament in 2016. While a volume such as the present one can hardly do justice to all aspects of a diverse and complex linguistic situation, even in a small community like that of Malta, our aim in editing this book was to shed light on the main strands of research being undertaken in the Maltese linguistic context. Six of the contributions in this book focus on Maltese and explore a broad range of topics including: historical changes in the Maltese sound system; syllabification strategies; the interaction of prosody and gesture; the constraints regulating /t/-insertion; the productivity of derivational suffixes; and raising phenomena. The study of Maltese English, especially with the purpose of establishing the defining characteristics of this variety of English, is a relatively new area of research. Three of the papers in this volume deal with Maltese English, which is explored from the different perspectives of rhythm, the syntax of nominal phrases, and lexical choice. The last contribution discusses the way in which Maltese Sign Language (LSM) has evolved alongside developments in LSM research. In summary, we believe the present volume has the potential to present a unique snapshot of a complex linguistic situation in a geographically restricted area. Given the nature and range of topics proposed, the volume will likely be of interest to researchers in both theoretical and comparative linguistics, as well as those working with experimental and corpus-based methodologies. Our hope is that the studies presented here will also serve to pave the way for further research on the languages of Malta, encouraging researchers to also take new directions, including the exploration of variation and sociolinguistic factors which, while often raised as explanatory constructs in the papers presented here, remain under-researched.
Book Synopsis The Maltese Cross by : Dennis Castillo
Download or read book The Maltese Cross written by Dennis Castillo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Despite its size, the small island nation of Malta has had a dramatic effect on world history. Historian Dennis Castillo, the American-born son of Maltese immigrants, traces the challenges faced by the Maltese people as witness to the Punic Wars, the Crusades, Napoleonic Wars, and World War II.
Book Synopsis Maltese and Other Languages by : Joseph M. Brincat
Download or read book Maltese and Other Languages written by Joseph M. Brincat and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages, the Maltese language has undergone a series of internal changes as well as modifications and accretions caused by various external forces. Internal changes are not easy to date and explain because they require a painstaking comparative exercise that can be carried out only by experts in Semitic languages. As a result, their systematic description in a historical grammar of Maltese has not yet been published. By contrast, the external history of Maltese is essentially an account of its contact with various languages. All languages are marked by contact, albeit to varying degrees. Gumperz holds that "most words in most modern languages would count as borrowed" (1982: 67), but what makes Maltese unique is that it blends together elements from three distinct language families: the Semitic, the Romance, and the Germanic. The language spoken in Malta today is the result of a process that has been going on for a thousand years and, consequently, the account presented in this book will show how social, political, and cultural events are reflected in the changing face of the language. As the lexicon is the most tangible aspect of a language, it will naturally be privileged in this account. Thanks to its position exactly at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, 90 km from Sicily and 290 km from the Tunisian coast, Malta's relations have not been limited to its immediate neighbours, Sicily and North Africa. Since time immemorial, Malta has been at the mercy of all the great naval powers that sailed the Sicilian channel. As a result, the Maltese language has been shaped by its inhabitants' interactions with all the peoples who, throughout the centuries, have landed on the islands to govern it or establish colonies there. In a territory as small as 27 km by 14 km, the ratio between the numbers of the rulers and the ruled is highly significant. For thousands of years, when the inhabitants had to live off the islands' resources, the size of the population must have been consistently small, around 5,000 in all; this factor may have allowed the language to be substituted a number of times. This may surprise us today, but before the Romantic Age, people had a very pragmatic view of language. Like any other tool, language was prized mostly for its efficiency. The population of the Maltese islands has multiplied in the past one thousand years, rising to around 400,000, and such a rapid increase in such a small place could not fail to exert a strong influence on the linguistic scenario. The increase in population was due not only to natural growth but also to cumulative waves of settlers from abroad. Social interaction between the locals and the visitors was strong, bilingual communication took place in various domains at all social levels and relations were especially strong when mixed marriages took place. For this reason, a history of the Maltese language must be seen in the wider context of a linguistic history of the Maltese islands, and will offer linguists belonging to both the historical and typological fields an intriguing case study of what can be considered a "minor" language from the international point of view (used only in a small state, but spoken by the great majority of the islanders) which has managed to survive alongside a series of "major" languages such as Arabic, Latin, Sicilian, Italian, and English, languages which were widely spoken and written abroad and which also enjoyed prestige in Malta itself, but whose local circulation was generally limited to the literate minority.
Book Synopsis The Story of Malta by : Maturin Murray Ballou
Download or read book The Story of Malta written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Malta: Past and Present by : Henry Seddall
Download or read book Malta: Past and Present written by Henry Seddall and published by London, Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1870 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Guide to Malta and Gozo by : George Percy Badger
Download or read book Historical Guide to Malta and Gozo written by George Percy Badger and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Description of Malta and Gozo by : George Percy Badger
Download or read book Description of Malta and Gozo written by George Percy Badger and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands by : Ritienne Gauci
Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands written by Ritienne Gauci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together a collection of works that comprehensively address both the myriad geomorphological landscapes of the Maltese Islands and how their evolution has been shaped over various time-scales by different sets of processes. Additionally, the work highlights how the small geographical setting of the Maltese Islands helped to closely connect these landscapes with Maltese society and as a result, they have evolved from stand-alone examples of geomorphology to important backdrops of Maltese cultural identity. Most of the contributing authors are academics – both local and foreign – with a research focus on the geomorphology of the Maltese Islands. However, the editors have also (and purposefully) chosen other contributors from governmental institutions and research agencies, who complement the geomorphological research with their proactive work in selected case studies on Maltese landscapes.
Book Synopsis Malta and the Mediterranean Race by : Robert Noël Bradley
Download or read book Malta and the Mediterranean Race written by Robert Noël Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Maltese Connection by : Michael Dugan
Download or read book The Maltese Connection written by Michael Dugan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the SBS television series of the same name, this book explores the origins of Australia's Maltese community- a population which now outnumbers that of Malta itself- and examines the growing links between Malta and Australia.
Book Synopsis Historical Guide to Malta and Gozo by : G. Percy Badger
Download or read book Historical Guide to Malta and Gozo written by G. Percy Badger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Book Synopsis Malta and the Maltese by : Charles Archibald Price
Download or read book Malta and the Maltese written by Charles Archibald Price and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1954 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Taste of Maltese Folklore by : Joseph C. Camilleri
Download or read book A Taste of Maltese Folklore written by Joseph C. Camilleri and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Malta and Its Knights by : Whitworth Porter
Download or read book Malta and Its Knights written by Whitworth Porter and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Description of Malta and Gozo by : George Percy Badger
Download or read book Description of Malta and Gozo written by George Percy Badger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Book Synopsis Churchill and Malta by : Douglas Austin
Download or read book Churchill and Malta written by Douglas Austin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the compelling story of the special relationship between Winston Churchill and the people of Malta. During six visits over a period of forty years he came to understand and support the aspirations of the Maltese people and in the Second World War the bonds linking them were tempered in fire and destruction. In those dark days Churchill's determination to defend the island and his faith in the courage of the Maltese people never wavered.